Board of Ed committed to excellence

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The Estes Park School District Board of Education would like to welcome everyone back to school for a new year of great opportunity. This past spring, your board took some time to refine the core beliefs and goals that govern their work on behalf of our community’s schools. This effort began more than a year ago with a series of “Neighborhood Learning Conversations,” where Board members met with and gathered input from a wide range of Estes area citizens. The conversations centered on how our schools can best prepare learners for an increasingly diverse and technological society. The result was a set of Global Outcomes that reflect the skills and competencies that our community feels are most important. The Global Outcomes include: Communication, Critical thinking and Problem solving, Creativity, Wellness, Perseverance, and Collaboration.

These guiding principles, and the Board’s belief in the importance of excellent public education, are reflected in the mission of the Estes Park School District. The District strives to meet a wide range of educational, wellness, and social needs of the students in our community. The Estes Park School District will prepare all learners to excel as citizens in a diverse and technological society, through a curriculum that meets our Ends and supports our Global Outcomes. The District’s Ends can be understood as the skills, knowledge, and abilities we intend for all graduates to achieve. Our Ends include working to engage learners in a personalized, positive, and progressive learning environment, and to provide opportunities for learners to apply their skills and knowledge in real-world settings to the benefit of the community. This kind of learning environment provides a solid foundation in language, science, history, mathematics, and the arts. It also includes quality mental health services, wellness education, career & technical education, and extracurricular activities and athletics. In the classroom, we are helping learners to develop and demonstrate proficiency in a future-focused curriculum that will enable them to become active, productive members of the community.

A full description of the Board of Education and the Estes Park School District’s Beliefs, Vision, Mission, and Ends, can be found in the “Our District” section of the district website: www.estesschools.org.